Source: RM, January 2017. Table shows the percentage of people with declared ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. It includes staff paid through DfE payroll. Those who joined DfE in the machinery of government change, including from higher and further education and the Skills Funding Agency, are not yet included in the data.

We will update this section as new information is available.

Working with organisations and networks

We are working with partners in the equality and diversity sector and:

are supporting black and minority ethnic children by speeding up the process of adoption

are working with partners that promote equality

are making sure that meetings on different aspects of the curriculum involve partners from the various equality communities